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Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2

Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2No oracle pay-per-use pricingThere isn't much news here. Oracle is not offering pay-per-use pricing on EC2. All they are saying is that you can use your fully-paid upfront perpetual licenses on Amazon servers. Big whoop.

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., Oracle Support, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Hold that Red Hat obit

Hold that Red Hat obitI think......this uncovers a serious problem with blogging - its immediate nature tends to push people into "knee-jerk" reactions to events, without taking time to fully think things through before publishing. Bloggers seem to feel the need to be the first one to report on a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Support, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., database

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Navicat Lite 8.2.16 (Windows)

Navicat Lite is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy. Support of multi-connections to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle servers. Support of transferring data between different servers. Support...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PremiumSoft CyberTech, PostgreSQL, Navicat Lite, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Navicat Premium 8.2.16 (Windows)

Navicat Premium is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy. Support of multi-connections to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle servers. Support of transferring data between different servers. Support...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PremiumSoft CyberTech, PostgreSQL, Navicat Premium, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Oracle's Virtualization Story

Kool-aid?Looks like someone has been drinking the kool-aid. Let's be clear, Oracle's distro is a rip-off of RedHat's, albeit behind a year or so, plus patches to help their RDBMS that may not be accepted in the upstream projects. Don't let Oracle fool you, the core engineers are...

Tags: virtualization, Oracle Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Oracle's Virtualization Story

Oracle VM, like the other virtualization technologies Oracle offers, is presented as an integrated, optimized, easy-to-manage part of an Oracle environment. It may not be the best choice for those expecting support the products from the industry leaders. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Oracle Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Navicat (Oracle GUI) 8.2.16 (Windows)

Navicat Oracle GUI is an Oracle database management tool, which can convert XML, CSV, MS Excel, MS Access, and popular data formats to MySQL databases, eliminating time-consuming data entry and the errors that accompany it. Other useful major features include Import and Export wizard, Unicode support, SSH Tunnel, Batch Job...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Microsoft Windows, PremiumSoft CyberTech, GUI, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Navicat Premium 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat Premium is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy. Major Features in Navicat Premium version 8.1include: Support of multi-connections to MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle servers....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Server, PremiumSoft CyberTech, PostgreSQL, Navicat Premium, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-28

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The maintenance renewal landscape

Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-23